DirectX 9.0c is out

[NeoGen]

Microsoft finally released DirectX 9.0c, let's hope there are no more bugs this time. ;)

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=9226a611-62fe-4f61-aba1-914185249413&DisplayLang=en


Wouldn't it be great that there was a way for us to harness the power of our graphics cards GPU's to distributed computing? :)

[BC]

Microsoft finally released DirectX 9.0c, let's hope there are no more bugs this time. ;)

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=9226a611-62fe-4f61-aba1-914185249413&DisplayLang=en


Wouldn't it be great that there was a way for us to harness the power of our graphics cards GPU's to distributed computing? :)

Yes, that would be great, but think of the instruction set decrease.... We have plain CISC processors (Intel), CISC processors in RISC form (AMD's secret)... and then Ultra-RISC processors (your graphics card)......

Perhaps the trick is to do the old 'external co-processor' trick... just do it in parallel to the CPU instead of at the other end of the AGP???

There is only 1 thing about doing this (and it's being researched BIGTIME)..... how to keep the co-processor from melting under 100% load. My Radeon 9800 does indeed get up to 100C... The only thing stopping it from going to max (127) is that I have the AGP set at 4x instead of 8x.


Maybe it's time for someone to be inventive again..... anyone up for 'bread-boarding' ??? I am.... that is where I started this whole career!

BC